Hmmm, so two college professors want to turn a well-known number upside down. That will confuse people quite nicely, though all it will do is turn a number like 25 into 4%. Nothing else changed.
Quite the liberal solution: do nothing except confuse every ordinary person.
The Europeans (at least the Germans) use that system. I see nothing wrong with it -- except that we are accustomed to our system and I see no particular advantage in changing, except to two professors who seem to want some attention.